India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s2.11
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c9.s2.11
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c9.s2.11
(5) MINER—The miner (*khanaka*) is referred to by Kātyāyana on III.1.145. Mining revenue was called *ākarika* (cf. *Kāśikā* on IV.3.75). Pāṇini refers to seams as *prastāra* (III. 3.32), on which the *Kāśikā* cites *maṇi-prastāra*, the vein of gems. The same word occurs as *prastara* in Kauṭilya. Traders dealing in the *prastāra* minerals were called *prāstārika* (IV.4. 72).